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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant was a renowned American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for his work 'The Story of Civilization'.
Writer, Historian, Philosopher | American
Born: 1885-11-05 in North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Died: November 7, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Will Durant
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
Will Durant
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Will Durant
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will Durant
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Will Durant
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will Durant
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Will Durant
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Will Durant
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant